Biden's border bungle

 The Federalist Wire:

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On Tuesday, Aaron Heitke, the former Chief Patrol Agent (CPA) for both the San Diego and Grand Forks sectors, issued a scathing account of the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of border security, particularly in relation to the growing threat of illegal immigrants with terrorist ties entering the United States.

Speaking before the Homeland Security Committee, Heitke revealed alarming details about the state of border enforcement and the pressure he faced to withhold critical information from the public.

“The only true consequence we have to slow down and discourage people from coming into the United States illegally is sending them back to their country of origin,” Heitke explained. He pointed out that, during the first three years of the current administration, there was a “steady decrease” in the number of countries to which illegal immigrants could be deported.

For the first time in his 25-year career, spanning five different administrations, Heitke observed a large-scale failure in the ability to return people to their home countries. This, he said, left Border Patrol agents with two difficult options: either detain or release those caught entering the country illegally.

Heitke didn’t mince words when directing his criticism at the Biden-Harris administration: “The current administration, however, from day one, made a point of decreasing the amount of detention space available nationwide. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s funding for detention has steadily been cut and private detention eliminated.”

According to Heitke, the resulting influx of illegal immigrants has been felt globally. “As this happened, the numbers Border Patrol encountered illegally crossing the border increased exponentially.”

The toll on Border Patrol operations, as Heitke described, was severe. “The impact to me and my agents was significant,” he said. He recounted how agents were ordered to process all individuals encountered at the border, even as groups of hundreds and thousands poured into the U.S.

The strain was such that “80, 90, sometimes 100% of the agents on duty” were diverted from border patrol duties. This led to entire zones in Texas, Arizona, and California being left without any agent presence for extended periods. Those looking to evade capture, Heitke said, could easily slip through. “We have no idea who and what entered our country over this time.”

Reflecting on the challenges of monitoring these incursions, Heitke noted, “Throughout 2022 and ’23, I sent agents to Texas and Arizona to count gotaways,” referring to those who evaded apprehension. He added that those sectors couldn’t even deploy enough agents to assess what had slipped through the cracks.
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The Biden border policy has been irresponsible.  Many of those coming into the US are murderers or guilty of other crimes.  I suspect that Biden and the Democrats are trying to get millions of illegals into the country in order to help them get enough of a majority to control the US government permanently.  This is not how Biden and the Democrats are trying to rig future elections.